California on the rails

In case you missed it, this week at the MacIver Institute I wrote about the folly of supposedly “free” federal money to spend high speed rail. For those that regret Governor Scott Walker’s decision to reject the money for high speed rail in Wisconsin, it could be worse. We could be like California and accepted it.

Or we could be like Wisconsin, let the money be spent elsewhere, and then allocate tens of millions of dollars of tax money to State rail projects that would have been covered by the Federal money.

It’s ironic, but Walker turned out to be one of the biggest boosters of rail projects nationwide by throwing in tens of millions of State dollars on top of the already committed Federal money. Wisconsin got hosed in the deal whether you were pro or con rail. That’s why Walker’s shut up about it. I honestly believe he wanted to bargain to convert that money from rail to general transportation, including some rail projects, and then got caught flatfooted when the Feds pulled the plug.

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